Wayne Godwin

Vice President, Hotels and Hospitality Group Sub-Saharan Africa

Wayne is Vice President of JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality Group in Sub-Saharan Africa. Wayne focuses on delivering strategic advisory, investment sales, financing and asset management services to local, regional and global clients across the region.

Wayne has over eight years of experience in the hospitality real estate industry. His broad range of experience includes hotel feasibility assignments, asset management of hotel properties and management contract negotiations. Wayne has completed hospitality consulting assignments in various African countries.He has a BA in Tourism Development from the University of Johannesburg and a PDM from WITS Business School. He is currently completing his MSc in Property Studies at the University of Cape Town.

Blogs by Wayne

Wayne Godwin, Vice President, Hotels & Hospitality Group (SSA) at JLL, talks to how the averting credit downgrade and subsequent increase in business confidence has ushered renewed optimism for the hotel sector The timing of South Africa’s political changes in late 2017 and into early 2018 could not have come at a better time for […]

As we rattle through the streets of Addis Ababa in my taxi driver’s 1970’s 200 series Mercedes Benz, Tesfaya tells me proudly that Ethiopia is the only African country that has not been colonized and to have its own alphabet and calendar. He also stresses that these are the correct versions. The one thing you […]

During a recent trip to Mauritius I came across a quote from Mark Twain in 1896, “Mauritius was made first, and then heaven, and heaven copied after Mauritius.” In my opinion, this could be one of the most successful destination marketing campaigns of all time, positioning Mauritius as a luxury tropical island getaway in the […]